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Arbeiter-Zeitung

Workers' Daily

Viennese daily newspaper, founded by Victor Adler
in 1899. Its full name was Arbeiter-Zeitung: Zentralorgan der Deutschen
Sozialdemokratie in Oesterreich (Workers' Daily Newspaper: Central Organ of German Social
Democracy in Austria). The paper was banned in 1934, and recommenced publication in August
1945, ceasing publication finally in 1991.

Schenker evidently read it, at least occasionally, and cited it in his diary. Two items from it from 1903 are
clipped in his scrapbook (OC 2/pp. 4, 8).

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Marko Deisinger

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Correspondence

Heinrich comments on the attack of the mumps, from which Wilhelm's children are
suffering. Heinrich encourages Wilhelm and his family to move from Kautzen permanently, and in
that connection will investigate the cost of having Julia Schenker's body moved from Waidhofen
to Vienna for burial with the cooperation of the Vienna Kultusgemeinde. He envisions purchasing
burial plots for Jeanette and himself adjacent to Julia's grave. He thanks Dodi for her
invitation to stay with them if Vienna becomes intolerable.

Acknowledges OJ 11/35, 20 and composition; expects to be able to comment on
Halm's Klavierübung in Tonwille 4; reports Leipzig University's decision not to appoint him;
speculates on the impact of Kontrapunkt 2 and Der freie Satz; public difficulty in accepting
Urgesetze. — Aristide Briand: The importance of being well-read on a topic before commenting in
public: Schoenberg and Reger; newspapers. — Maximilian Harden: although faithful to Schenker,
Harden had not mastered the topics on which he wrote. — National Govenment: Schenker's
publishing plans, including "The Future of Humanity": man's anthropomorphic thinking is a
delusion, he needs to adapt to nature, to return to a primitive state, to abandon "development"
and "progress" and return to primordial laws; inferior man wants to "govern" (bowel wants to
become brain); Schenker deplores "artifice" (French) as against nature (German). — Things
French: praises German superiority over French in its joy of work. — Higher Plane: the German
should not abase himself before the Frenchman.